全球智库信息集成服务系统(G2TT): How Durable are Social Norms? Immigrant Trust and Generosity in 132 Countries

G2TT

来源类型	Working Paper
规范类型	报告
DOI	10.3386/w19855
来源ID	Working Paper 19855
	How Durable are Social Norms? Immigrant Trust and Generosity in 132 Countries
	John F. Helliwell; Shun Wang; Jinwen Xu
发表日期	2014-01-23
出版年	2014
语种	英语
摘要	This paper estimates the global prevalence of social trust and generosity among immigrants. We combine individual and national level data from immigrants and native-born respondents in more than 130 countries, using seven waves of the Gallup World Poll (2005–2012). We find that migrants tend to make social trust assessments that mainly reflect conditions in the country where they now live, but they also reveal a significant influence from their countries of origin. The latter effect is one-third as important as the effect of local conditions. We also find that the altruistic behavior of migrants, as measured by the frequency of their donations in their new countries, is strongly determined by social norms in their new countries, while also retaining some effect of the levels of generosity found in their birth countries. To show that the durability of social norms is not simply due to a failure to recognize new circumstances, we demonstrate that there are no footprint effects for immigrants’ confidence in political institutions. Taken together, these findings support the notion that social norms are deeply rooted in long-standing cultures, yet are nonetheless subject to adaptation when there are major changes in the surrounding circumstances and environment.
主题	Labor Economics ; Demography and Aging ; Other ; Economic Systems ; Culture
URL	https://www.nber.org/papers/w19855
来源智库	National Bureau of Economic Research (United States)
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条目标识符	http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/577528
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	John F. Helliwell,Shun Wang,Jinwen Xu. How Durable are Social Norms? Immigrant Trust and Generosity in 132 Countries. 2014.